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Crop genetics
- POSTER: Diversity enriched wheat (2025)
- POSTER: Genetics of wheat flag leaf size (2024)
- POSTER: Wheat yield stability (2024)
- Poster: Traits for future cereal crops (2022)
- POSTER: wild wheat fragment lines (2022)
- POSTER: Improving phenotyping in crop research (2022)
- PRESENTATION: Plant breeding for regen ag
- Poster: Designing Future Wheat (2020)
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Crop protection
- POSTER: Understanding the hierarchy of black-grass control (2025)
- POSTER: Emerging weed threats (2025)
- POSTER: Disease control in barley (2025)
- Poster: Weed seed predation in regen-ag (2024)
- POSTER: Disease control in winter wheat (2025)
- POSTER: Mode of action (2023)
- POSTER: Inter-row cultivation for black-grass control (2022)
- POSTER: UKCPVS winter wheat yellow rust in spring 2025 (2025)
- Poster: Management of Italian ryegrass (2021)
- POSTER: UKCPVS winter wheat rusts - 2024/25 review (2025)
- POSTER: UKCPVS disease monitoring and the benefit to UK growers (2025)
- POSTER: Diagnosing and scoring crop disease using AI (2025)
- POSTER: Finding new sources of Septoria resistance (2024)
- POSTER: Fungicide resistance research (2024)
- POSTER: Detecting air-borne pathogens (2024)
- POSTER: Oilseed rape diseases (2024)
- POSTER: Fungicide resistance research (2024)
- POSTER: Improving chocolate spot resistance (2022)
- Poster: Pathogen diagnostics (2022)
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Seed certification
- POSTER: Wheat DUS (2024)
- POSTER: Innovation in variety testing (2024)
- POSTER: AI and molecular markers for soft fruit (2024)
- POSTER: Barley crop identification (2023)
- POSTER: Herbage grass crop identification (2023)
- POSTER: Herbage legume crop identification (2024)
- POSTER: Minor cereal crop inspecting (2023)
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Soils and farming systems
- POSTER: Checking soil health - across space and time (2024)
- POSTER: Checking soil health - step by step (2024)
- POSTERS: Changing soil management practices (2022)
- Poster: Monitoring natural enemies & pollinators (2021)
- POSTER: Soil structure and organic matter (2024)
- POSTER: Novel wheat genotypes for regen-ag (2024)
- Video: New Farming Systems project (2021)
- Video: Saxmundham Experimental Site (2021)
- POSTER: Impact of prolonged rainfall on soil structure (2024)
- POSTER: Soil & agronomic monitoring study (2024)
- POSTER: The impact of rotations & cultivations (2024)
- VIDEO: Great Soils; soil sampling guidelines (2020)
- Poster: Soil invertebrates within arable rotations (2024)
- VIDEO: Soil health assessment (2021)
- POSTER: Saxmundham - modern P management learnings
- POSTER: Saxmundham - 125 years of phosphorus management
- Poster: Soil phosphorus - availability, uptake and management (2025)
- POSTER: Morley long term experiments (2025)
- POSTER: Exploiting novel wheat genotypes for regen-ag (2025)
- Video: Saxmundham Experimental Site (2021)
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Agricultural crop breeding
Crop breeding is a key capability across NIAB. At our Cambridge site we focus on developing material in the following areas: ‘Orphan’ crops – these often offer great potential, with slow varietal improvement and uptake to date due to a lack of previous …
Site contact details
Niab - Cambridge Park Farm Campus, Villa Road, Histon, Cambridge, CB24 9AT (note change of postcode from March 2026) T: 01223 342200 [email protected] Trials Office and Seed Handling Unit (SHU) Whitehouse Lane, Cambridge, CB3 0LF Niab - East Malling New Road, …
Cambridge - Lawrence Weaver Road
The Lawrence Weaver Road site in Cambridge, based on Niab's original Old Granary and John Bingham Laboratory site and opened in February 2020, is home to the Crop Science Centre, Niab's partnership with the University of Cambridge, and tenants from across …
East Malling
Based on the 200+ ha original site of the East Malling and Wye Fruit Experimental Station, near Maidstone in Kent, Niab's East Malling site includes offices, laboratories, field and glasshouse facilities, alongside research, trials and commercial …
NIAB Trading Ltd
NIAB Trading Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Niab. Registered company number: England 07390289 Registered address: NIAB Trading Ltd 93 Lawrence Weaver Road CAMBRIDGE CB3 …
TAG Consulting Limited
TAG Consulting Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Niab. Registered company number: England 05110993. Registered address: TAG Consulting Limited 93 Lawrence Weaver Road CAMBRIDGE CB3 …
Royal Patron
HM King George V and Queen Mary, accompanied by HRH Princess Mary, were the first members of the Royal Family to visit, opening the new Niab building on Huntingdon Road on 14 October 1921. King George VI became NIAB’s first Patron, followed by HM Queen …
David Clarke
Research interests After finishing a research project modeling the impacts of climate variability on UK wheat yields at Cranfield University David joined Niab in 2017. David supports Niab's long term experiments investigating cultivations, cover …
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